Food Deserts: Health Disparities & Health Solutions

  Eating healthy is the foundational practice that can help American society become a fit nation. While this is the main goal for individuals, there are many aspects that hinder eating a healthy diet. Socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors play an important role in accessing healthy foods. It is a disturbing irony that many people in…

Inclusive Approaches to Redevelop Medical Textbooks

The consequences of an American medical racial history have not been restituted. As a result, poor health outcomes in patients of color ensue. Ideas of race related to biology that were shaped by eugenic ideologies still exist today. The same goes for physicians’ perceptions of race. For example, many physicians believe that there are genetic…

Equitable Representation in Medical Textbooks

Erasure is the act of denying or refusing to acknowledge that people’s race and lived experiences in America differ through socioeconomic, historical, political, and legal factors. This concept of colorblindness, also known as erasure, is counterproductive when it results in the inability to recognize the need to include diverse representation and instead results in the…